BAMC teams with regional medical centers to save man's life

Photo Credit: Courtesy photo by U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research

Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Jeremy Cannon (right) and Dr. Jeremy Pamplin place a patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, in September 2012, at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, Texas. ECMO is a heart-lung bypass system that circulates blood through an external artificial lung and sends it back into the patient's bloodstream.